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By Darrick Taylor, Crisis Magazine - I mention these considerations because recent events bring them to mind—in particular, for American Catholics, two recent appointments that have left many shaking their heads. I refer to the recent appointment of Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego to the see of Washington, D.C., and the appointment of Sister Simona Brambilla to be prefect of the Dicastery for Religious in the Vatican. Both are noteworthy for the same familiar, depressing, and entirely predictable reasons... There is no defense for the appointment of McElroy, a protégé of the pedophile and criminal Theodore McCarrick, who knew of his mentor’s abuse of seminarians but kept silent.

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - Which brings me, as you may have been waiting for, to the Vatican’s appointment this week of San Diego’s Cardinal Robert McElroy as cardinal archbishop of Washington D.C. There are rumors that previous occupants of that post – including Cardinals Wuerl and Gregory along with the papal nuncio to the United States and several figures in Rome – opposed that appointment... McElroy’s appointment is an oddity. He is a native of California, has spent almost all of his priestly life there (none in Washington), and has no great claim to being the best – or even a good – choice for the new post, other than he’s long been a progressive social justice advocate... If one were given to speculation, it might be thought that Pope Francis was persuaded to appoint him as a counterweight to the return of Donald Trump.

By Bishop Joseph Strickland, From X - Bishop Joseph Strickland took to social media to express his disappointment with Pope Francis’ appointment of Cardinal Robert McElroy at the Archbishop of Washington DC.  In the post, Bishop Strickland stated: In November I asked the bishops of the United States, “What will it take?”. It’s not surprising that I received no response from the bishops. The appointment of the corrupt Cardinal McElroy to the Archdiocese of Washington DC raises the question again. The blatant corruption of Pope Francis and the US Cardinals is on full display with the appointment of a McCarrick clone to the same archdiocese where his evil reigned twenty years ago. ....